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Praktica MTL 50 film SLR with Pentacon 1.8/50 attached, next to a Praktica BMS electronic film SLR. The two lenses are a CZJ Tessar 2.8/50 and a Flektogon 2.4/35. All lenses are M42 mount, apart from the Pentacon Prakticar 2.4/50 on the BMS, which is Praktica's own B-mount. Also pictured is a Praktica BCA SLR manual.
This equipment was made in the Deutsche Demokratische Republik (hence 'DDR' on some of the lenses) before the wall fell, using the factories and expertise of German camera and lens makers which fell on the side of Germany portioned out to the USSR in the aftermath of World War II, including Carl Zeiss in Jena, and others which were amalgamated to create Pentacon, producing SLRs under the Praktica brand.
My latest board design is for the old National Semiconductor DigiTalker chipset.
DigiTalker is a voice synthesis system with 144 pre-loaded words that can be sequenced and arranged to make basic sentences. And, it sounds really good even by today's standards, but for one reason or another the product never really took off and National discontinued the DigiTalker line somewhere around 1990. I picked up this chipset back in the early 90's for about $25.
I've had this chipset breadboarded for years (www.afox-consulting.com/graphics/DigiTalker1.jpg) and decided to make a circuit board so it would be more portable, reliable and take up less room. So.... here it is.
"This is DigiTalker. One. Two. Three..."
Strobist:
One SB-800 on the back seat of the car, aimed at the ceiling.
More info:
Nikon D300
Nikkor 18-70 @ 27mm, f5.6
ISO400
1/250" (to kill as much ambient light as possible)
My fully re-foamed and operational silver Pentax MX.
Alienbees ABR800, camera left and an Alienbees B800, camera right, all through a diffusion tent.
Introducing the 3.3V FT231X Breakout board, complete with the full UART hardware handshake feature! The pinout of this board matches the FTDI cable to work with official Arduino and cloned 3.3V Arduino boards. It can also be used for general serial applications. This board still brings out the DTR pin as opposed to the RTS pin of the FTDI cable. The DTR pin allows an Arduino target to auto-reset when a new Sketch is downloaded. This is a really nice feature to have and allows a sketch to be downloaded without having to hit the reset button. This board will auto reset any Arduino board that has the reset pin brought out to a 6-pin connector.
The coolest thing about the FT231X Breakout is that we have broken out ALL the pins for your use, making this board all the more hackable!
One of the features of this board is a jumper on the back of the board that allows the board to be configured to either 3.3V or 5V. This board ship default to 3.3V, but you can cut the default trace and add a solder jumper if you need to switch to 5V. It should be noted, however, that the max input of the FT231X is only 3.3V but it can operate down to 1V8 with external pull ups and is also 5V tolerant.
There are pros and cons to the FTDI Cable vs the FTDI Basic. This board has TX and RX LEDs that allow you to actually see serial traffic on the LEDs to verify if the board is working, but this board requires a Micro-B cable. The FTDI Cable is well protected against the elements, but is large and cannot be embedded into a project as easily. The FTDI Basic uses DTR to cause a hardware reset where the FTDI cable uses the RTS signal.
My X-T1 arrived last week along with a 35mm f/1.4 lens. I have since added a 14mm f/2.8 and am awaiting my 56mm f/1.2
I love this system!
I'm very fond of my Canon Ixus 500 but there are times that I wished that I had another camera. The gorgeous pictures from ESOX LUCIUS' made me almost want to buy a Canon EOS 350D Digital. Be sure to check out his sets, such amazing stuff there. I'm not a great photographer and such Canon model is expensive for an amateur like me. I was kinda forgotten about it until my dealer Macline had a great offer on a Nikon D50 and two lenses (55-200mm & 18-55mm) included for 650 Euro VAT excl.
So if anyone has some great learning resources on Digital SLR's or the Nikon D50 in general I would appreciate it if you share them with me here ;-)
Always a good time at the Auto Show
What has to be the only car to really get me excited at the Los Angeles Auto Show, the Chevy Volt for 2016 boasts some really impressive features that for fuel efficiency and economy are hard to beat. The cockpit electronics and technology package is quite impressive as well
A gutted old laptop sitting on clear plexiglass with a black fleece blanket for backing. To allow the smoke to come through the keys of the laptop, small holes were drilled between the keys through the circuit board. I used a cigar placed on aluminum foil inside the space normally set aside for computer electronics.
SB-24 camera left, shoot-through umbrella. Zoomed to 85 @ 1/4. GI-4ch trigger.
Canon 430EX camera right, zoomed to 105 @ 1/64. GI-4ch trigger
Vivitar 273 camera right @ full manual with a 2” coroplast grid, to capture the rising smoke. Triggered with a kako mini cell optical slave.
Shadow/highlights adjustment and cropping in Elements 5.
The set-up is in my photostream.
This is a Astrodata Time Code Generator from 1970 that has a neat Nixie tube display. The electronics are vintage 1970, all transistor, resistor, capacitor, and not a integrated circut or chip to be found :).
A low quality low cost HD camera that produces 25fps 1920x1080 20000kb/s MJPEG video streams together with pcm_s16le 32000 Hz 1 channel 512 kb/s audio streams. If you record audio while charging, a loud buzzing noise will be recorded.
An 8 GB microSD card (about 7690MB) will record 51 minutes of 1080p video (with audio).
The following links might break eventually
Snapshot: aliexpress.com/snapshot/6156516402.html
Offer:
aliexpress.com/item/HD-Waterproof-camera-1080p-2-0-inch-t...
This version of the Black Hawk chopper is equipped with the Air Force's PAVE electronics systems program and is used for combat search & rescue. This one is based at Moody AFB in Georgia.
The display on my 1960s-vintage Hewlett Packard 132A dual-beam oscilloscope is dead, and I suspect the problem is the CRT tube. But before I can search for a replacement, I had to get the part number. And to get the part number, I had to poke around inside.
Now I know, so If you happen to have a spare HP 5083-0722 CRT tube on hand, or if you have any idea how to fix this, please give me a shout.
Questo è il classico colpo di fortuna ero in cerca di vinili quando in un mercatino dentro una vetrina ho scorto questa meraviglia che ho portato via per una cifra ridicola!
Day 152 of 365
I got my two new lenses via UPS today. I've only played with them a little bit, but it is the weekend and Savanah is spending it with Mom Mom and Pop Pop again so plenty of free time to go and explore, experiment and have some fun.
I got a great deal on these and I'm one very happy camper right now!
It was a good day today, and only made better when I found out that my new lenses were in!
Established in the 1980s and doesn't appear to have changed much since then; still has the 081 phone number on one of the signs.
Richmond Road, Twickenham, Middx.
www.recyclart.org/2014/02/steve-jobs-portrait-e-waste/
Jason Mecier, a San Francisco based artist, has just unveiled this new portrait of Steve Jobs, composed entirely out of electronic waste. 20lbs of e-waste were used to creates this portrait, mainly cell phones, iPods, headphones, Mac keyboards, CD-Rs, batteries, mice, and memory sticks.
Have you also seen this other Steve Jobs portrait made from the hardware of a non-working Macbook pro ?
More information: Cult Of Mac website !
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This just made me chuckle.
Second day of class and I have enough work to force me into the library to find books and well, do classwork. how annoying is that.
anyways. i was there working and using their macs, and i realized... i was using the older keyboards!
that made me reminisce on the high school era where i would spend hours upon hours upon days inside a small windowless video room editing for various projects using a keyboard that required brute strength to press the keys. oh those were funny days, and now im so glad i'm using the new keyboard and just the ease of clicking now can help my probably growing, carpel tunnel.
but yeah. old keyboard. so big. everything now is so small. *smiles*
Fans of this hard-driving hot hatch might baulk at the high-tech evolution of their beloved icon, but they shouldn't judge the new Clio RS before they try it.
You can find the complete review here: www.mynrma.com.au/motoring/reviews/car-reviews/renault/re...